Trump calls for congressional term limits

originally posted by: NthOther
I'm not sure term limits are such a good idea.

Millennials will get into power that much faster.

Do you really want that?

I don't. That's simply accelerating Idiocracy. But hey, the sooner we get it over with, right?

i dont know about that. The Millennials parents and gramdparent who raced them have been in charge with nothing but corporate success. i would be
willing to have chimps in congress and bet we wouls be better off.

This would have to be a grass roots movement started at the local level. Individual teams in each state gathering signatures and beginning the push.
It would realistically take 4-8 years to accomplish..maybe more. The only thing I could see Trump doing to aid in this cause is to get the word out
and outline a plan that would work. This is not a top down issue...by design.

not only could an executive order make such a change, a second executive order could restrict congresses ability to undo such a change, so yes
executive orders do have everything to do with this. and definitely do give the president such ability

That's simply not true. It will take an amendment to the US Constitution to add congressional term limits, just as it took the 22nd Amendment to add
presidential term limits.

In fact, in the 1990s, a lot of States had passed term limits for federal Congressmen coming from their States. So the Supreme Court ruled even that
to be unconstitutional in the 1995 case "U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton".

I would like to add that marijuana is being legalized in various places on a regular basis. Despite little if any support, Americans are fighting for
this and to me this speaks volumes on the level people will go if you can get a proper backing in your cause.

Why have artificial term limits? Let voters limit terms of Congressmen at the ballot box. Why is Trump going off on this tangent? It will take
him an entire first term just to get 3 or 4 of his already announced big items through the morons in Congress...even if it's Republican controlled.

POTUS can't do sh*t about congressional term limits... just like Gary Johnson - if supporters use this as a reason to vote for him, they're idiots
plain and simple

You know you say that but - this is something almost all the voters actually agree on.

Truth is the people could force it to happen if enough of an issue was made of it, because they could simply vote against anyone in office past the
term, eventually it could be passed.

Really the only thing preventing it is the people not demanding it, and with the right push this could actually happen - not easily and definitely
not by a president for sale like Hillary but everyone knows it needs to happen, next step is just getting voters to make it a priority.

Admittedly, I don't know the ins and outs of what transpired. What I do know is it had backing and was fairly organized and is being legalized
recreationally and medically around the US.

I was just using that the rough outline on what it would take to get something rolling.

Two entirely different issues.

The Right To Marijuana (or non-right) is not something discussed in the Constitution.

The nature and rules of the legislative body called "Congress", however, is spelled out in the Constitution. To get that, you'd need a huge
grassroots movement with a number of organizations making it a prime policy. One or both major political parties would have to put "term limits" on
their party platform (check into the history of the repeal of Prohibition) -- and it would go from there.

But the thing is, Congress really didn't have any real vested interest in this... Senators and Representatives weren't distillery owners and brewers.
However, they all are getting nice salaries and other perks (and staff) and may not have a ready job once they leave government. I don't see career
politicians giving more than lip service to this.

They might. But in any case, a President can't simply say 'we're gonna do it' and have it done. Presidential powers are actually fairly limited (the
founding fathers didn't want to give the President powers equal to the King of England or other royal rulers.)

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